• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.839-856
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• 2012

To enable remodeling of the exterior of buildings more convenient, such finishing materials as curtain walls, metal panels, concrete panels or dry stones need to be easily detached. In this respect, this study proposed a new design of the slab for the purposes. In the new design, the sides of the slab were properly modified, and the capabilities of anchors fixed in the modified slab were experimentally tested. In details, a number of concrete specimens with different sizes and compressive strengths were prepared, and the effect of anchors with different diameters and embedment depths applied in the concrete specimens were tested. The test results of the maximum capacities of the anchors were compared with the number of current design codes and the stress distribution was identified. This study found that the embedment depth specified in the current design code (ACI318-08) should be revised to be more than 1.5 times the edge distance. However, with the steel sheet reinforcement, the experiment acquired higher tensile strength than the design code proposed. In addition, for two types of specimens in the tensile strength experiment, the current design code (ACI 318-08) is overestimated for the anchor depth of 75 mm. This study demonstrated that the ideal breakout failure was attainable for the side slot details of a slab with more than 180 mm of a slab thickness and less than 75 mm of an anchor embedment depth. It is expected that these details of the modified slab can be specified in the upgraded construction design codes.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.705-726
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• 2014

In general, cylindrically curved plates are used in ships and offshore structures such as wind towers, spa structures, fore and aft side shell plating, and bilge circle parts in merchant vessels. In a number of studies, it has been shown that curvature increases the buckling strength of a plate under compressive loading, and the ultimate load-carrying capacity is also expected to increase. In the present paper, a series of elastic and elastoplastic large deflection analyses were performed using the commercial finite element analysis program (MSC.NASTRAN/PATRAN) in order to clarify and examine the fundamental buckling and collapse behaviors of curved plates subjected to combined axial compression and lateral pressure. On the basis of the numerical results, the effects of curvature, the magnitude of the initial deflection, the slenderness ratio, and the aspect ratio on the characteristics of the buckling and collapse behavior of the curved plates are discussed. On the basis of the calculated results, the design formula was developed to predict the buckling and ultimate strengths of curved plates subjected to combined loads in an analytical manner. The buckling strength behaviors were simulated by performing elastic large deflection analyses. The newly developed formulations were applied in order to perform verification analyses for the curved plates by comparing the numerical results, and then, the usefulness of the proposed method was demonstrated.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제75권6호
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• pp.643-657
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• 2020

This study presents experimental and numerical investigations on circular steel tube confined ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) columns under axial compression. The plain UHPC without fibers was designed to achieve a compressive strength ranged between 150 MPa and 200 MPa. Test results revealed that loading on only the UHPC core can generate a significant confinement effect for the UHPC core, thus leading to an increase in both strength and ductility of columns, and restricting the inherent brittleness of unconfined UHPC. All tested columns failed by shear plane failure of the UHPC core, this causes a softening stage in the axial load versus axial strain curves. In addition, an increase in the steel tube thickness or the confinement index was found to increase the strength and ductility enhancement and to reduce the magnitude of the loss of load capacity. Besides, steel tube with higher yield strength can improve the post-peak behavior. Based on the test results, the load contribution of the steel tube and the concrete core to the total load was examined. It was found that no significant confinement effect can be developed before the peak load, while the ductility of post-peak stage is mainly affected by the degree of the confinement effect. A finite element model (FEM) was also constructed in ABAQUS software to validate the test results. The effect of bond strength between the steel tube and the UHPC core was also investigated through the change of friction coefficient in FEM. Furthermore, the mechanism of circular steel tube confined UHPC columns was examined using the established FEM. Based on the results of FEM, the confining pressures along the height of each modeled column were shown. Furthermore, the interaction between the steel tube and the UHPC core was displayed through the slip length and shear stresses between two surfaces of two materials.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.102-108
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• 2008

In China, energy and environmental problems are becoming serious owing to rapid economic development. Coal is the most problematic energy source because it causes indoor and outdoor air pollution, acid rain, and global warming. One type of clean coal technology that has been developed is the coal-biomass briquette (or bio-briquette, BB) technique. BBs, which are produced from pulverized coal, biomass (typically, agricultural waste), and a sulfur fixation agent (slaked lime, $Ca(OH)_2$) under high pressure without any binder, have a high sulfur-fixation effect. In addition, BB combustion ash, that is, the waste material, can be used as a neutralization agent for acidic soil because of its high alkalinity, which originates from the added slaked lime. In this study, we evaluated the suitability of alternative biomass sources, namely, aquatic plants, as a BB constituent from the perspective of their use as a source of energy. We selected three types of aquatic plants for use in BB preparation and compared the fuel, handling, and environmental characteristics of the new BBs with those of conventional BBs. Our results showed that air-dried aquatic plants had a higher calorific value, which was in proportion to their carbon content, than agricultural waste biomass; the compressive strength of the new BBs, which depends on the lignin content of the biomass, was high enough to bear long-range intracontinental transport in China; and the new BBs had the same emission control capacity as the conventional BBs.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.391-407
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• 2017

Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) bars have been recently used to reinforce concrete members in flexure due to their high tensile strength and especially in corrosive environments to improve the durability of concrete structures. However, FRPs have a low modulus of elasticity and a linear elastic behavior up to rupture, thus reinforced concrete (RC) components with such materials would exhibit a less ductility in comparison with steel reinforcement at the similar members. There were several studies showed the behavior of concrete beams with the hybrid combination of steel and FRP longitudinal reinforcement by adopting the experimental and numerical programs. The current study presents a numerical and analytical investigation based on the data of previous researches. Three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) models of beams by using ANSYS are built and investigated. In addition, this study also discusses on the design methods for hybrid FRP-steel beams in terms of ultimate moment capacity, load-deflection response, crack width, and ductility. The effects of the reinforcement ratio, concrete compressive strength, arrangement of reinforcement, and the length of FRP bars on the mechanical performance of hybrid beams are considered as a parametric study by means of FE method. The results obtained from this study are compared and verified with the experimental and numerical data of the literature. This study provides insight into the mechanical performances of hybrid FRP-steel RC beams, builds the reliable FE models which can be used to predict the structural behavior of hybrid RC beams, offers a rational design method together with an useful database to evaluate the ductility for concrete beams with the combination of FRP and steel reinforcement, and motivates the further development in the future research by applying parametric study.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.389-398
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• 2016

사일로에 대한 국내의 기존 연구는 여러 분야에서 다양하게 이루어져 왔으나 사일로 자체에 대한 설계나 시공에 대한 연구는 활발하게 이루어 졌다고는 할 수 없으며 경제적인 사일로설계에 대한 접근은 이루어지지 않았다. 본 연구에서는 기업이나 설계업체 등에서 필요한 성능을 충족시키면서 가장 경제적인 사일로의 규모를 결정할 수 있는 기초 자료를 제시하고자 한다. 해석은 철근 콘크리트 구조에 국한하여 다양한 요인에 대하여 실시하였다. 각각 4종류 저장재료(밀가루, 과립생석회, 모래, 철광석), 5종류 용량(1만, 3만, 5만, 7만, 9만톤)의 콘크리트 사일로에 대하여 8종류의 H/D(0.5~4)와 3종류의 콘크리트 압축강도(30, 35, 40MPa)를 고려한 해석을 실시하였다. 일반적으로 재료의 종류에 따라 H/D가 1~3사이에서 사일로 설계가 이루어지고 콘크리트 강도(40Pa이상)를 높일 수 있다면 가장 경제적인(50%이상의 물량 및 인건비 절감 가능) 사일로가 구현될 수 있다고 판단된다.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.155-163
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• 2013

이 연구에서는 전단하중을 받는 부유식 콘크리트 구조물 모듈 접합부의 구조거동 실험연구를 수행하였다. 모듈 접합부 전단키의 균열 양상, 전단거동 및 전단강도를 파악하였다. 전단강도의 영향을 파악하기 위해 전단키의 경사각도, 횡방향 구속응력 및 콘크리트의 압축강도 등을 실험변수로 고려하였다. 전단키의 경사각도가 증가함에 따라 접합부의 전단강도가 증가하였다. 또한, 구속응력이 증가함에 따라 전단키의 전단강도가 증가하였다. 실험변수에 따른 전단거동 실험결과를 토대로 접합부의 전단강도 평가식을 제안하였으며, 제안식에 의한 전단강도 예측값은 실험값에 근접하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3296-3301
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• 2011

배수성포장은 다양한 장점을 가지고 있어 점차 보편화되고 있는데, 주요 효과로는 수막현상 최소화, 빗물에 의한 미끄럼저항값을 일정하게 유지하고, 차량과 포장체 사이에서 발생하는 소음을 저감시켜준다. 도로소음 및 수막현상 감소효과에 대한 많은 연구가 수행되었다. 본 연구의 목적은 배수성 포장 표층의 역학적 특성(강도 및 탄성계수)을 평가하는 것이다. 시험에 사용된 시편은 선회다짐기를 이용하여 제작하였다. 배수성포장의 상부표층 및 하부표층용 시편을 실험에 이용하였다. 마샬안정도시험(KS F 2377), 자유단공진주시험(KS F 2730), 일축압축시험(KS F 2314), 슈미트햄머시험 등을 수행하였다. 일축압축강도 및 슈미트햄머를 이용한 강도값을 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.175-186
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• 2006

FRP 시스템으로 보강된 철근콘크리트 단면 대부분이 철근콘크리트로 구성되어 있어 휨해석 및 휨설계를 직사각응력블록을 이용한 강도설계법에 의존하는 경향이 있다. 그러나, 보강단면의 인장철근 및 FRP시스템에 의한 인장력이 부족한 단면의 FRP 시스템의 변형률이 인장파단변형률을 초과하면 강도설계법을 적용할 수 없는 해석상 모순에 빠져든다. 인장철근과 탄소섬유시트에 의한 인장력이 낮은 탄소섬유시트 보강보 실험에서 콘크리트 최대압축변형률이 0.003보다 낮은 것으로 측정되었을 뿐 아니라 최대휨모멘트는 강도설계법으로 산정된 공칭휨모멘트보다 작은 것으로 측정되어, FRP 시스템 보강단면의 공칭휨모멘트 산정에 강도설계법의 적용한계가 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.152-159
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• 2010

최근 친환경 재료와 구조물에 대한 관심이 증대되면서 친환경 재료인 황토에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 황토는 건설 및 마감 재료로 사용된 전통적인 친환경 건설 재료 중의 하나이다. 황토는 높은 축열성, 습도 조절 능력, 자정력, 탈취 및 항균성능, 인체에 유익한 다량의 원적외선이 방사되는 점 등 건설 재료로서 많은 장점을 갖고 있다. 그러나, 황토는 낮은 강도특성과 건조수축 균열 특성 때문에 현대 건설에 사용되지 않고 있는 실정이다. 최근 연구자들의 연구결과에 따르면, 황토는 플라이 애쉬나 포졸란 같은 천연 포졸란 재료로 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 황토와 슬래그, 재생 PET 섬유가 혼입된 콘크리트의 역학적 성질과 구조적인 휨 거동 실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과 황토콘크리트의 압축강도와 탄성계수는 기준 시멘트 콘크리트 시편보다 상대적으로 낮게 평가되었으며, 철근 콘크리트 보의 휨 거동은 거의 유사하게 나타났다.